The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-28

and LAG. 1886 files There are 1000 tons of cast
and wrought iron and 159. 600 pounds Of old cop
per. Much of this materia, is lying loose around
the yards
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com
pany has established mutual guarantee fund.
The cost of insurance ranges from IS cents per
500 the first year to 80 cents the fifth year. 1t
is very successful and satisfactory system to
the employees, and it will probably be extended
to other roads.
OF both common and skilled labor are being con-
sidered by employers in all stations. Many of
them think that the establishment of arbitrative
methods will help to increase rather than to de-
crease strikes and dissatisfaction by offering IA
cllltles for the presentation of demands.
Great industrial and building activity is re-
ported from the Northwest. Minneapolis and
St Paul furnish the most marked evidences of
It. The Knights there are putting up large
four-story building. All the saw.mills are get
ting ready for big springs work. The -four
ing mills are doing more than they did last WIN
ter
Gun-makers record with satisfaction that not
one of the Rodman guns has ever been exploded
even though the pressure goes as high as 200, 600
pounds to the square inch. The endurance
ranges from 800 to 2. 400 rounds The life of a
large steel gun is 200 rounds The average pres
sure in Krupps guns is $4,000 pounds to the
square inch.
Paterson silk manufacturers have started a
cheap labor, and cigar manufacturing concern
has just been started at Kingston, n. Y, with a
capital of $500 900. and is employing only coun-
try girls. and is using the best machinery that
can be bad for cigar-making. Other manufact-
urers threaten to follow.
Manufacturers are favoring the establishment
OF relief associations. Several New England
employers have started them One in Portland,
Me-. has a membership of 129. All persons
whose wages are over S. week pay 81 fee and
10 cents per week, which entities a member in
case of sickness to S. per week until $25 has been
drawn out, and to $50 in case of death
Great expectations are INDUCED in concerning
the labor convention to be held il Cincinnati
on Feb. 90. Five hundred delegates, at least.
are counted on. A good deal of well-deserved
opposition is felt and expressed at some of the
originators, whose names smell If the nostrils
of honest labor. The Knights will lead off, and
the obnoxious members will stand in the back
ground and watch. The convention will cali an
other one to nominate President for 1888.
It is apparent that employers will very gener-
ally advance wages voluntarily. Hundreds have
already done so, even before any demand was
formally made by organized labor. Prices are
improving, mills, factories and mines are over
crowded. orders are far in excess of capacity,
and employers therefore, take the opportunity
of advancing wages. At the rate business is
crowding in, the great majority of employers
will not be in position to remain idle long over
wages disputes.
Boston has 1,251 firms engaged in the shoe
business. In Massachusetts there are 3, $50, of
which 1.089 are manufacturing houses New
York has 230 shoe manufacturers and wholesale
dealers and 529 tanners and leather dealers.
Philadelphia has liz shoe manufacturers As job
bers, A tanners of morocco and SO of Hsheepskin
and calf kid The number of tanning firms in
the State is 696 Ohio has 60 and Illinois has II
shoe manufacturers. There are Is, 217 retailers
of shoes in the United States.